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第一
dìyī
Main
English Definitionfirst; number one; primary
Simplified Script第一
Traditional ScriptSame
Pinyindìyī
Effective Pinyin
(After Tone Sandhi)		Same
Zhuyin (Bopomofo)ㄉㄧˋ ㄧ
Cantonese (Jyutping)dai6jat1
Part of Speech(形) adjective
Word Decomposition
第dì(prefix indicating ordinal number, e.g. first, number two etc); order; (old) rank in the imperial examinations; mansion; (literary) but; just
一yīone; 1; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

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Words With Same Head Word    
第二天dì'èr tiānnext day; the morrow
第二次dì'èr cìthe second time; second; number two
第二个dì'èr gèsecond
第三次dìsān cìthird; third time
第二轮dì'èr lúnsecond round (of match, or election)
Words With Same Tail Word    
万一wànyījust in case; if by any chance; contingency
统一tǒngyīto unify; to unite; to integrate
唯一wéiyīonly; sole
一一yīyīone by one; one after another
之一zhīyīone of (something); one out of a multitude; one (third, quarter, percent etc)
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